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| Title: | -={ H A C K E R S }=- |
| Notice: | Write locked - see NOTED::HACKERS |
| Moderator: | DIEHRD::MORRIS |
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| Created: | Thu Feb 20 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Aug 03 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 680 |
| Total number of notes: | 5456 |
160.0. "The Definition of a Hacker" by SNOV10::QUODLING () Wed Sep 25 1985 22:03
The following was in CTnotes today. I think it summarizes the Hacker Ethic
reasonably well.
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CTUK::ARCHIVIST CT Development/Support Notes 25-SEP-1985 08:13
Note 814.0 -< A Quotable Quote >- No responses
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Somehow this quote seems approriate:
"To be a real hacker means to dedicate a substantial part of your life
to the advancement of a technology. It means going behind the back of stuffed-
shirt administrators who think that, despite their inability to do the technical
work, they have the Royal Prerogatives to push the technologists this way and
that to satisfy obscure, largely symbolic organizational needs."
" To be a real hacker means to make a magnificent obsession of creating
some effect previously unknown, especially when others say you cannot or may not
do it. You will impoverish yourself, devote your whole being to the task and go
far beyond the limits that reasonable people place on un renumerative effort"
- Leo Felsenstein 1985.
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